I don't know if it was a joke, but the point is *not* to use your PC to see DVDs. The point is to dediacte a PC to the living room. MythTV (Linux) and Media Portal (Windows) or Windows MCE are very interesting solutions. Believe me, once you'll get one, it is very addictive.
One remote, Tivo like functions, all your pics, music, videos and TV in one box. All your media a couple of clicks away... Can't beat that, specially given that it's SPDIF capable (so your existing DD/DTS amp still works) and HD ready. And quality is superior...
Basically, it's a no brainer. If you like to consume media, it's THE solution today, bar none.
All the crap about interoperability in France was just smokes and mirrors to get the damn law passed. Now it is passed. Without the piece on interoperability. Worse than the DMCA, man, really worse.
There is nothing people are complaining about anymore over here. The law is in.
It's not about blowing up a plane. It's about making sure a plane cannot be hijacked. If you can build a bomb onboard, you just got yourself a nice device to pressure the pilot to give you his seat.
Now between blowing up a plane and 9/11, there is quite a difference in price (both $$$ and lives). That seems a bit more serious.
My WRT is just fine and hasn't been rebooted in months with 2 bittorrent clients and a few emule shooting at it constantly. Plus the regular http, ftp and emails both ways. The WRT runs Linux just fine and it makes a hell of a router!
I use my very old laptop with BSD on it as a gateway For a few bucks, you could buy a small linksys dedicated box. That box - in addition of doing the job fine - pumps up less power than a laptop will ever do even in their lowest consumption settings. In a few month, the cost of the Linksys box will be recouped on the electric bill. And it is smaller and heats up less.
If I was an artist, I'd definitely try to get a better % out of this deal when there is nearly no cost to the producers to put songs on ITMS.
If you were on a free market, yes, you'd do just that. The problem is that all the majors have agreed on prices and practices, turning them into something very close to a monopoly. And against a monopoly, the choice isn't there anymore, bacause you have lost your bargaining ticket: You can't get a better deal anywhere else.
The real problem is (as I understand it) that just plain english is more often than not highly ambiguous. The specialized language is here to make sure everyone talks about the same thing. Of course, 90% of the population doesn't speak the language, so it is pretty much a shot in the water. But at least the lawyers and the judge know what they are talking about.
Let's see... Well, in the blog you can find the name of two people that got out of their lawsuit. I am sure that 5 minutes alone with Google will allow you to find the name of their lawyers...
Silly question. Because a very similar article was posted two days ago, we can safely assume that a tomato seed is about the size of a grain of rice.
Some will say dupes are bad, but that one is definitely enlightening, bringing new information to the table. I now know that the size of a tomato seed is roughly the size of a grain of rice.
You actually forgot one very important step, which mislead you through the rest of your steps.
0. Check in all the patents ever filed to the USPTO for a patent that may cover part of your idea.
1. Too bad. It is a chance you have found that and were able to pull out before any harm was done. The fact is that people violating other people's IP are more and more considered as having links with terrorists. Of course, since they are actively trying to destroy the american capitalist economy (who could deny that?), they HAVE to be some terrorists of some sort.
In Windows, its valid to have myfilename.bar and MyFileName.bar No it is not, and no it has never been. Windows filesystems act very much like OSX's ones but for the 8.3 backward compatibility.
The one-click patent is blocking the road of any store that would like to allow their users to buy in one click. It is as simple as that. There are no workarounds or tricks one can use to get to the same result.
The value of patents is questionnable, and I might agree that they serve a just and interesting purpose. The idea debated here is over the value of software patents. You end-up patenting an idea, and this is just plain insane, there is no question about it.
Any drive can be RPC-1 or RPC-2, it just depends on the firmware installed. So even if you do have RPC-1 drives, you'll just have to flash them as RPC-2 to make them work... but then bye bye multi-region play...
The thing is, the next Windows (Vista) will not even recognize any of my CD/DVD burners/players (they are all RPC-1). So why should I install it again?
The switch is close my friend, and in my case it's not to Mac. Enough of proprietary nonsense.
The purpose is to encourage inventors to invent And the implementation tends to do the exact opposite.
year after such publication, the publication becomes prior art, which is proof against patent. Unless there has been a patent application before for that very idea.
Well, another way is to wait for the patent holder to tell you to stop. So basically, you just don't do anything. Would you be willing to start a company on an idea you've had knowing that at any time someone might tell you to stop? All your investment could be jeopardized...
I'm sure a close analysis of many patents would allow prior art publications to defeat them. But then you need to invest even more money in lawyers just to prove your point. Which might not even get through.
The system (software patents) allow anyone to patent an idea, and it is utterly stupid, no matter how you look at it.
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I don't know if it was a joke, but the point is *not* to use your PC to see DVDs. The point is to dediacte a PC to the living room. MythTV (Linux) and Media Portal (Windows) or Windows MCE are very interesting solutions. Believe me, once you'll get one, it is very addictive.
One remote, Tivo like functions, all your pics, music, videos and TV in one box. All your media a couple of clicks away... Can't beat that, specially given that it's SPDIF capable (so your existing DD/DTS amp still works) and HD ready. And quality is superior...
Basically, it's a no brainer. If you like to consume media, it's THE solution today, bar none.
everything is tucked away efficiently on the harddisks
.tar.gz from the pool and burn that somewhere for off-site keeping
That's not a backup if it's still on your HDD.
you can export a
How do you burn 120GB?
Looks like you didn't answer the question. In fact, you didn't even scratch it!
ask.com is us only
Is there anyone else?
All the crap about interoperability in France was just smokes and mirrors to get the damn law passed. Now it is passed. Without the piece on interoperability. Worse than the DMCA, man, really worse.
There is nothing people are complaining about anymore over here. The law is in.
It's not about blowing up a plane. It's about making sure a plane cannot be hijacked. If you can build a bomb onboard, you just got yourself a nice device to pressure the pilot to give you his seat.
Now between blowing up a plane and 9/11, there is quite a difference in price (both $$$ and lives). That seems a bit more serious.
Don't feed the trolls
My WRT is just fine and hasn't been rebooted in months with 2 bittorrent clients and a few emule shooting at it constantly. Plus the regular http, ftp and emails both ways. The WRT runs Linux just fine and it makes a hell of a router!
You could try to flash the linksys box firmware to a WRT-DD or other that is less likely to have trouble driving your modem.
I use my very old laptop with BSD on it as a gateway
For a few bucks, you could buy a small linksys dedicated box. That box - in addition of doing the job fine - pumps up less power than a laptop will ever do even in their lowest consumption settings. In a few month, the cost of the Linksys box will be recouped on the electric bill. And it is smaller and heats up less.
My view on the problem at least.
If I was an artist, I'd definitely try to get a better % out of this deal when there is nearly no cost to the producers to put songs on ITMS.
If you were on a free market, yes, you'd do just that. The problem is that all the majors have agreed on prices and practices, turning them into something very close to a monopoly. And against a monopoly, the choice isn't there anymore, bacause you have lost your bargaining ticket: You can't get a better deal anywhere else.
Hi twelveinchbrain.
You have just breached the DMCA by exposing a method to circumvent a copy-protection technology.
The FBI will be at your door in about 20 minutes. Do not oppose any resistance.
Regards.
**AA.
The real problem is (as I understand it) that just plain english is more often than not highly ambiguous. The specialized language is here to make sure everyone talks about the same thing. Of course, 90% of the population doesn't speak the language, so it is pretty much a shot in the water. But at least the lawyers and the judge know what they are talking about.
Great. Now explain how to find such a lawyer.
;)
Let's see... Well, in the blog you can find the name of two people that got out of their lawsuit. I am sure that 5 minutes alone with Google will allow you to find the name of their lawyers...
That said, 'please' would have been welcome
It is all in the blog entry my friend. Your best course of action is to get a lawyer with two qualities:
1. FAST !!!!
2. Knows about the RIAA tactics.
Azureus is slow? Azureus is Java? So Java is slow.
Thanks for your insight.
Back then, MS's JVM was one of the best ones available
No, no. That was the fastest one. That was also the buggiest one.
Silly question. Because a very similar article was posted two days ago, we can safely assume that a tomato seed is about the size of a grain of rice.
Some will say dupes are bad, but that one is definitely enlightening, bringing new information to the table. I now know that the size of a tomato seed is roughly the size of a grain of rice.
You actually forgot one very important step, which mislead you through the rest of your steps.
/rant ;-)
0. Check in all the patents ever filed to the USPTO for a patent that may cover part of your idea.
1. Too bad. It is a chance you have found that and were able to pull out before any harm was done. The fact is that people violating other people's IP are more and more considered as having links with terrorists. Of course, since they are actively trying to destroy the american capitalist economy (who could deny that?), they HAVE to be some terrorists of some sort.
In Windows, its valid to have myfilename.bar and MyFileName.bar
No it is not, and no it has never been. Windows filesystems act very much like OSX's ones but for the 8.3 backward compatibility.
Will it be as successfull as OpenBSD then?
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The one-click patent is blocking the road of any store that would like to allow their users to buy in one click. It is as simple as that. There are no workarounds or tricks one can use to get to the same result.
The value of patents is questionnable, and I might agree that they serve a just and interesting purpose. The idea debated here is over the value of software patents. You end-up patenting an idea, and this is just plain insane, there is no question about it.
Any drive can be RPC-1 or RPC-2, it just depends on the firmware installed. So even if you do have RPC-1 drives, you'll just have to flash them as RPC-2 to make them work... but then bye bye multi-region play...
Once ReactOS goes to version 1.0, I think I'll be switching over to it.
Looking at the state of the art, I'd say there is virtually no chance you'll get there any time soon. Good luck.
The thing is, the next Windows (Vista) will not even recognize any of my CD/DVD burners/players (they are all RPC-1). So why should I install it again?
The switch is close my friend, and in my case it's not to Mac. Enough of proprietary nonsense.
The purpose is to encourage inventors to invent
...
And the implementation tends to do the exact opposite.
year after such publication, the publication becomes prior art, which is proof against patent.
Unless there has been a patent application before for that very idea.
Well, another way is to wait for the patent holder to tell you to stop.
So basically, you just don't do anything. Would you be willing to start a company on an idea you've had knowing that at any time someone might tell you to stop? All your investment could be jeopardized
I'm sure a close analysis of many patents would allow prior art publications to defeat them.
But then you need to invest even more money in lawyers just to prove your point. Which might not even get through.
The system (software patents) allow anyone to patent an idea, and it is utterly stupid, no matter how you look at it.